The Fiscal Year 2024 COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP) is a competitive award program designed to advance public safety by providing funds directly to state law enforcement agencies in states with high seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures for the purpose of locating or investigating illicit activities such as precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers.
The goal of CAMP is to increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies at the state level to improve their investigative efforts to address methamphetamine use, manufacture, and trafficking. By providing funding for additional law enforcement, civilian, prosecutors, and task force personnel, training, and equipment, the program seeks to increase the number of hours devoted to statewide task forces, increase the number and variety of agencies participating in task forces, and enhance the analytical capability of task forces.
Anticipated outcomes of CAMP awards include: increased collaboration with federal agencies; increased analytical reporting; increased information sharing among participating agencies; increased number and efficiency of investigations; increased percentage of investigations resulting in arrests, referrals, prosecutions, and ultimately convictions; increased knowledge and use of community policing principles; increased number of drug-endangered children identified; and increased number of and size of drug seizures.
Allowable costs include:
- Sworn officer positions (salaries and benefits);
- Civilian/Non-sworn personnel (salaries and benefits);
- Fringe Benefits for Sworn and Civilian/non-sworn Positions
- Equipment/Technology;
- Supplies;
- Travel/Training;
- Contracts/Consultants; and
- Other costs may include such items as software and prepaid warranties or maintenance agreements (not to exceed 36 months), overtime costs for sworn officers and civilians engaging in CAMP-related investigative activities, or other miscellaneous items that have a direct correlation to the overall success of a recipient's project objectives and are necessary for the project to reach full implementation. Include all overtime costs in this section. Sworn officer and civilian overtime costs may include the following fringe benefits only: FICA, worker's compensation, and unemployment compensation – all other fringe benefits are unallowable for overtime costs.
2023 award recipients can be seen here: https://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/2023AwardDocs/camp/Award_List.pdf
CAMP may not be used to fund treatment programs or to prosecute methamphetamine-related activities. Further unallowable costs include, but are not limited to:
For a more extensive list, please see the official program guidance at: https://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/2024ProgramDocs/camp/solicitation.pdf